Question

I am parsing through HTML using Linq-to-sql. Right now to get a specific paragraph tag I’m using the following code:

        var paragraphs = contentDiv.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Elements("p").ToList();

However, one of the sites I am parsing has P tags with tags after them. So the markup is like:

<p>...</p>
<ul><li>...</li></ul>
<p>...</p>
<ul><li>...</li></ul>
<p>...</p>
<ul><li>...</li></ul>
<p>...</p>
<ul><li>...</li></ul>

I need to get all the text inside all p tags and inside all ul tags but I need the content in the order that it appears in the HTML. Essentially I’d like something similar to:

        var paragraphs = contentDiv.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Elements("p" || "ul").ToList();

How would I go about doing this?

And no, these P and UL tags are not sectioned off by themselves, so I can’t just get all content in that parent XElement.

Answer 1

Sounds like you want

contentDiv.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Elements()
          .Where(x => x.Name.LocalName == "p" || x.Name.LocalName == "ul")
          .ToList();